Combined wrench and vise.



F. L. WALKER.

COMBINED WRENCH AND VISE. APPLICATION FILED 'uov. so, 1910.

1,105,473. Patented July 28, 1914.

FRIED I. \VALKEJEL, DIE BURLINGTON, IOWA.

COMBINED WRENCH AND VISE.

h lt3- specification of Letters Patent Patented July 28, filial.

Application filed November 80, 1910. Serial No. 5%,966.

i ball whmait may concern: offset, longitiuliually-parallel toothed jaw Be it known that I, Faun L. "Wanker, a faces on, m, in substantial alinement with citizen of the'U'nited States, resident of Bun the longitudinal axes of the straight tool lington, in the county of Des Moines and members, and located within and having an 5 State of Iowa, have made a certain new and oblique relation to the inner lateral faces of useful Invention in Combined Wrenches and said members, and meeting the beveled outer Vises; and it declare the following to be a lateral faces of the members in acute angle tall, clear, and exact description of the edges 7, 7. In this way the sharp acute same, such as will enable others skilled in angle edges are adapted to be driven into the re the art to which it appertains to make and wood around a sunken carriage bolt head, use the invention, reference being bad to the the straight parallel-toothed rectangular accompanying drawings, and to letters or jaw faces m, on, providing for an eilicient figures of retort-nice marked thereon, which grip upon the bolt head so that it may be form a part of this specification. readily, held while the. nut at the end of the 15 Figure 1 is a side view of the invention. bolt is being turned. The jaw faces m, m, Fig. 22 is a detail end view taken from the being in substantial alinement with the axes inner side of the movable member. of the straight tool members, the hammer The invention has relation to a tool or bolt impulse in driving will be communicated in holder primarily adapted for holding the a direct manner to the acute angle edges. 20 round head of a carriage bolt so that the nut The handle of the tool is ailapted to be thereof may be removed by the application pounded with a hammer at its end, to sink of a wrench thereto. the acute ends of the jaws and the jaw faces Other objects and advantages will hereinm, m, in the wood in case the bolt head is after appear. even with or sunk into the wood. as in the accompanying drawings, illustrat- The jaws f, f, have concave transverselying the invention, the letter a, desi nates toothed jaw faces 0, 0, located within the the main or body member of the tool, said inner lateral faces of the two members below member being entirely straight throughout the straight toothed jaw faces referred to, for its length, and having a prismatic handle use as gas pliers or for a pipe wrench or for to end i), in line therewith and adapted at its other purposes, and between the coneaveend for the stroke ota hammer. toothed jaw faces and the straight toothed c, is the pivotal member of the tool, also jaw faces are located 'plane portions n, 11, entirely straight: throughout its length and which are adapted for convenient use as at having end lugs (Z, (I, embracing the body wrench for ordinary nuts, and are located tilt member and pivotally connected therewith in line with the inner lateral faces of the by a pivot bol t c, in line with the body memtool members. bet and close to the pivotal member. lVhen the slightly tapered prismatic Both the body member and the pivoted shank or handle of the body member oi the member are formed with jaw ends 7', of tool seated upright in a polygonal or so similar character, adapted for adjustment squared socket to hold the tool firmly in with relation to each other by means of a position, it may be conveniently used as a threaded bolt g, passing through perforavise,to hold work for sawing, planing or tions 9', 9, oi the two members and having other purpose. a thumbscrew nut 7i, engaging the threads The members of the tool, being straight to ot said bolt. and each of nearly the same dimensions A spring may be interposed between the throughout, may be conveniently made of two members to automatitmlly expand the bar metal stock, and the application of a same with relation to each other when the hammer to the end of the shank or handle thumb nut is unscrewed. will act to sink the acute jaw ends and the so Both members of the tool are provided straight longitudinally toothed jaw faces with beveled outer lateral Faces, and said into engagement with a sunken out or carmembcrs when adjusted together, are deriage-bolt head carrying the carriage bolt, signed to ha re their inner lateral t'aces subthe impulse oi the hammer stroke being distantially in contact. l'loth members have rectly lrausmitttal through the straight to at their ends, rectangular straight inward uremia-rs. 1W

Having thus described my invention what ll claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a wrench. a straight body member, and a straight supplementary member having an cfiset end provided with a direct pivotal connection with the body member, both members being adapted, when adjusted together, to have their inner lateral faces substantially in contact, said members having at their ends beveled outer lateral faces, and substantially straight inward-ofiset, longitudinal parallel-toothed jaw faces in substantial alinement with the longitudinal axes of the members and located within and have na the inner lateral faces of the members, and

[means for ad usting the members With relation to each other. i

ln testimony whereof ll afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED L. WALKER.

Witnesses."

H. F. KUHLEMEIER, (1, H. MOHLAND. 

